October 6th, 2012
Leon Shann, poet and friend died on 17th September 2012. His funeral was Tuesday 25th at Fawkner Cemetery in the Crick Chapel and burial in Northern Cemetery with his wife, Diana, not far from Tony's grave. Allison had had a dream in which Tony said tell Leon he was waiting for him.
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Bundoora again January 21st 2012
Party
If you send out invites to a party do you ever
wonder who will open the envelope?
Will it be the person it is addressed to?
Does that person recognise the hand writing?
Do they worry it could be more bad news. Not another bereavement, robbery of the house
or chipped front tooth. I do hope they are relieved when they read the single
piece of paper and realise it is an invitation to a happy event
a party for my son Daniel.
If you send out invites to a party do you ever
wonder who will open the envelope?
Will it be the person it is addressed to?
Does that person recognise the hand writing?
Do they worry it could be more bad news. Not another bereavement, robbery of the house
or chipped front tooth. I do hope they are relieved when they read the single
piece of paper and realise it is an invitation to a happy event
a party for my son Daniel.
Sunday, May 20, 2012
and all that: First post
and all that: First post: Not the last we hope as 11th day of 11th month 11 year in 21st Century.
May 20th 2012
yesterday I rang Ireland, to the mobile number of my Irish cousin James who lives on the west coast of Ireland in Glin, overlooking the Shannon in Co. Limerick.
He has gained a job since the last time I visited over 18months ago. He had been 2 years out of work.
It is a manual job involving evening and night shifts working for a German manufacturing company.
I guess it means Irish labour is cheap. But whatever, I feel absurdly happy for James as he was despondent about not having a job, and I imagined him living out the rest of his life unemployed.
I hope his good fortune has been replicated throughout Ireland.
We also shared our recent bereavements. He lost his father, James on 29th December, whilst my husband died on 3rd December. How to strange to hear him speak as I was feeling. One's cultural inheritance remains way after one would expect it.
May 20th 2012
yesterday I rang Ireland, to the mobile number of my Irish cousin James who lives on the west coast of Ireland in Glin, overlooking the Shannon in Co. Limerick.
He has gained a job since the last time I visited over 18months ago. He had been 2 years out of work.
It is a manual job involving evening and night shifts working for a German manufacturing company.
I guess it means Irish labour is cheap. But whatever, I feel absurdly happy for James as he was despondent about not having a job, and I imagined him living out the rest of his life unemployed.
I hope his good fortune has been replicated throughout Ireland.
We also shared our recent bereavements. He lost his father, James on 29th December, whilst my husband died on 3rd December. How to strange to hear him speak as I was feeling. One's cultural inheritance remains way after one would expect it.
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Monday, November 7, 2011
First post
Not the last we hope
as 11th day of 11th month 11 year in 21st Century.
8th December 2011
Today was the last day with Tony on this earth. His body is now in the ground and I am above with Daniel and Allison and over 70 people who attended his funeral.
as 11th day of 11th month 11 year in 21st Century.
8th December 2011
Today was the last day with Tony on this earth. His body is now in the ground and I am above with Daniel and Allison and over 70 people who attended his funeral.
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